BETE

Release Date: 14 May

Author: Adam Roberts Publisher: Gollancz Talking cows and a surly former farmer feature in Adam Roberts’s darkly comic satire about man’s relationship with nature, in which animal rights activists have injected domestic animals with artificial intelligence chips in a bid to win them greater rights. We said: “Roberts happily punches difficult thoughts through the reader’s skull like bolts from a stun gun… it’s obvious he is having fun.”